Combined rail joint and tie.



PATENTEDY NOV, 6, 1906;

' c. I. LARSON.

COMBINED RAIL JOINT AND TIE.

APPLICATION FILED J'ULYQ 1908 WITNESEEE.

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especially by the driving-wheels entitled in the employment of which the 4 tureis strong, durable, light in weight, and

5 tures and combinations of d evices, the operatures, arrangement, connection, and mutual CHARLIES J. LARSON, Oi GALESBURG, lLLlNOIS.

COMBINED RAH.

Specification of Letters Patent.

dOlNT Amine.

Patented ITo' r. 6, 1906.

Application filed July 9,1906. Serial No. 325,411. I

To a w/w'm it may concern:

Be it known thatl, CuAnLIEs J. Lassen, a citizen of the United States, residing at Galesburg, in the county of Knox and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Combined Rail Joint and Tie, of which the folloiving is a specification.

Prefatorially I may state that while my invention pertains, oriniarily, to a railway-tie it has connected relation with means wherebv, as will be hereinafter more fully ere plained, the ordinary rail may be secured thereto without the use of extra bolts, splieebars, fish-plates, or other devices or expedi' ents.

As is well known to those skilled in the art to which this invention. appertains, a great driving or striking force or percussive olow is exerted by each wheel of a train of cars, of heavy locomotives, upon the end oi each track-rail which is most distant from said wheels in their direction of motion or line of travelv as said wheels pass thereover.

One of the main objects my invention is to provide a tie whereby-this blow may be reduced. to a minimum.

A second object of the iuve'ntim'i is to pro ,vide a device of the Gildli tl'ihfll hereinbefore rails may be readily, quickly, and successhilly laid on'or removed from the ties, it being now understood that ties of the nature hereinafter described may be of metal, con wrete, orany other suitable and preferred material.

A still further object of the'invention is to provide a reinforced tie which while simple of construction and economic of rnanufacwhich is adapted for being laid end for end for pu'r' loses hereii'ia'lter set vforth.

To t lose and other ends and obiects my invention consists in novel structural teation of which devices so aratoly and in com' 'bination will be found hereinafter set forth, and specified in the claims hereto appended.

lrl echanism showing the structural fea relationship ol the several parts of my in1- provomcnt is illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in which.-

lfiigure is v. perspective seen from the small end of the bit! Fi 2 a to )lairg Fi 1 5:) J 2-; 7 i r) 3, an elevation seer from the broad end of l the tie; Fig. 4,11 perspective of one of the lish plates, and F 5 a detail showing one of the undercut grooves.

e'lerring to the iilrawings by numerals, the same one indicating the same part in the different figures thereof, 1 represents my improved tieof hollow construction and which,

before stated, may be of any suitable material, as metal or concrete. .lt com )rises a broad. end 2, upon which is seated t e rail-- joint 3,.and a narrow end 4, upon which the median portion of the opposite rail 5 is seated. laid in broken joints, as shownet Figs. 1 and Extending substantially-throughout the length of the part 2 and connecting the top 6 and bottom 7 is a reinforce-plate or supporting-wall 8, which, it will be evident, will take the weight of the traimwheels and their supported parts as they pass over the have contemplated this wallS,

rail ends. '1 whiclti is shown in the drawings as being perpendicular, to be of inverted-v shape or'of any necessary or preferred construction, or, indeed, it may be, if desired, dispensed with. 9 9 represent splice-bars or fish-plates, identical in form and. each comprising a ver-- tical wall it, (adapted to contact and engage the Web of the rail,) a flange 1.1,(adapted to rest on the flange of the rail) and a lateral projection or lug 12, the latter projecting rectangularly from the flange 1. Similar plates 13, but without the lugs 12, are employed on the narrow end of the tie, it being that end whereon the intermediate portion of the rail is laid.

. As shown best at Fig. 5, each end of the tie is provided with an undercut groove comprising ledges or ribsl l, channels 15, and a rail seat or Chair 16.

it may here be stated that rails are ln.operation the mid-length of a rail 5 is passed downwardly through the ribs 14 on the at such suitable distance that the flanges oi" the rail will pass therebetween. The flanges of a pair of fish-plates 13 are then slipped or interposed longitudinally of the rail and transversely of the tie, their flanges resting Within and being securely retained by the wall of the channels 15 and by the ribs 14.. Asingle bolt 17 is then passed through the ordinary orifice and threaded into'a nut 18. It will be manifest that the rail will have free endlonginove- I meet on the tie and that expansion and contraction are thus provided for.

On the broad end of the tie, which end, as

- end i of the tie, which ribs are spaced apart respective sides of the tie.

--=firm seat for the rail is had.

strong "and durable; that it hereinbefore stated, constitutes the rail-joint chair, the proximal ends of apair-of'rails are seated, as described in the manner of seating the single rail. A pair of -fish1plates 9 --are then slipped or slid into position, eachfi om its end contrary to that upon which the lug 12 is formed and each from opposite directions, to bring said lugs into contact with the The usual bolts are then passed through the-apertures in the plates'9 and secured by nuts in th'eordinary manner. It will be evident 'that'w'hen this last-named operation has been 1 er- =forrned the rails will not only be he'ldfrom GIIdWiSB movement, but that they will, by reason df the flanges'oftheplatestlbeing' held -within the grooves "in the tie, be held firmly andse'curely from being turned "to *one side 'orfrom being spread, especially wh'enthe locomotive-is passing'thereoverat-great speed, and that for the same reasons astrdn'gand It will he furthermore evident"that'theconstruction shown permits of ready layingor taking up of worn or damaged rails or broken ties; that it is economic of manufaeture, and that the broad and *firm rail-chair, together with the rigid manner in which therails are held *by myimproved fishlates and mode of bythe rails, to the and lying artl'y within said 3. Theeombinetion withereibwey fiielprovided with a transverse undercutg'roove'and a rail-seat, eta pair'of r'a'i'ls, theirflan'gesrest-, 'ing onsaid seat and"withinsald groove, and fish-plat'esuz'dapted to beseeured to-eeid 'ra'ils groove, each plate provi' ed-at-oneend'with rneansfOrngagingthetie.

'WitrLess my handend seal this "16th day-of June, 1996.

OHAR'LI'ES J. LARSON. L. e] Witnesses:

O. S. R rcnmns, L. M. 'RICHARDB. 

